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Hereford manufacturer invests in new VTL from Ward CNC

Numachine, a thriving Hereford-based business specialising in CNC machining and subcontract manufacturing, has embraced the advantages of a new Hyundai-Wia LV800RM vertical turning lathe (VTL) supplied by T.W. Ward CNC Machinery (Ward CNC).
7 hours ago Features

The future of automation and AI

Time for a spot of crystal ball gazing. Anders Billesø Beck, vice president of strategy and innovation at Universal Robots, presents his predictions for how automation may develop in the next 12 months.
1 day ago Features

Learning lessons of automation from Europe

In this article, automation leader FANUC, which has subsidiaries across the world, examines the potential reasons behind the UK’s reluctance to automate and asks what we can learn from our continental cousins.
3 days ago Features

Editor’s comment for Mid-March 2024

It’s easy to think of the UK’s objective to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 as something that’s a long way in the future but as we all know, targets of this magnitude simply don’t happen overnight.
6 days ago Features

Regular investment: the bedrock of continued success

In business, it’s a given that if you don’t move forward and improve on a continual basis, you’re effectively going backwards. It’s no coincidence therefore that the most successful companies are those that embrace investment on a regular basis – just like Ilkeston, Derbyshire-based HPC Services for example. Dave Tudor reports.
3 days ago Features

Renishaw encoders play key role in new hybrid machine tool

Effective CNC Solutions is a machine tool retrofit specialist based in Crewe, UK. A few years ago, its founding director Gary Pearson had a vision to develop a machine tool that would perform additive manufacturing (AM) and conventional subtractive manufacturing as a single process on the same machine.
1 day ago Features

MACH 2024: A highway to industry innovation

Five dedicated Knowledge Hubs will feature at MACH 2024 aimed at promoting the latest manufacturing advances to visitors and guiding them on how to adopt technology that will improve efficiency and boost productivity.
2 days ago Features

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